DATA VISUALIZATION AND DESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS

Catalog description

Develop skills to manipulate datasets and create visualizations and presentations that inform, allow decisions, tell stories, uncover hidden trends. Students will create dashboards that can be added to their portfolio. The course includes an introduction t o the types of visualizations, the importance of visual analysis to understand a dataset; tables, databases, queries, views, joins. Students will learn to create reports and dashboards with drill -down ability and use commercial tools for corporate use. Ite rative building of a project to visualize the data of a local organization, university department or an interesting dataset available in the internet. Using Python, the course will cover acquisition of datasets, exploratory data analysis, regression models. Intro to GitHub and Kaggle so students can explore and begin their own projects. The goal of the course is for students to get a sense of what questions we can attempt to solve with data and acquire basic skills to begin their own descriptive analytical skills. Prerequisites: STAT 230 or MATH 231, DATA 115.